EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[fire370]

That's a big operation. How many and what kinds of poultry do you usually have?
When I was young, we had hogs, cattle, horses and pheasant on one farm south of St. Louis and another fruit and vegetable truck farm with 100 leghorns for egg sales on the north side of town.

I have 13 breeds of chickens that I breed plus heck I don’t know, another 150 plus free rangers. We have ducks mainly khakis and a pile of coturnix quail. Keep around 200 quail hens. That’s pretty much it for the birds.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That's a lot of birds. I saw pictures of the breeder barn you were building that you posted a couple years ago. That was VERY nice.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

How much grain will you get at a time? I usually collect mine in 5 gallon buckets. I feed it wet. Too much hassle to dry. There’s a trick I’ve learned to keep it from molding. Stack 3 five gallon containers together and then put an empty five gallon on top of that. Fill the empty with water and it will compress the other 3 so that air doesn’t get to the grain. After compressing put water, while still stacked, into the other buckets. They last a very long time this way. And it keeps the deer from eating the grain.
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Stacking any other than 3 usually results in them falling over.

We have large and small breweries scattered all over town and around the region. I need to get off my bum and seek out some spent grain.

 

[Pensmaster]

We have large and small breweries scattered all over town and around the region. I need to get off my bum and seek out some spent grain.

Like you need one more thing to add to your list.
It does help a little on feed bill

 

[Razadia]

I need some serious feedback on this video. I feel like I could have done a lot better and maybe done it on a day when Junebug wasn't here. Also, super silly stuff at the end.

 

[BullChick]

I really don’t want to know about how you hatch. I didn’t realize you were eight months pregnant, but congratulations!
Ummmm... yes, that would be too intense for most audiences.

A long long time ago, we thought a bath in rubbing alcohol brought down a fever, and lard was good for burns.
Also, fresh greens wasn’t thought of the same way back then.
Speaking of lard, they put a stick of butter in their coffee.

Okay, that is it.

 

[Razadia]

I really don’t want to know about how you hatch. I didn’t realize you were eight months pregnant, but congratulations!
Ummmm... yes, that would be too intense for most audiences.

A long long time ago, we thought a bath in rubbing alcohol brought down a fever, and lard was good for burns.
Also, fresh greens wasn’t thought of the same way back then.
Speaking of lard, they put a stick of butter in their coffee.

Okay, that is it.

Are you calling me fat, BC?


Cuz I am.

 

[Razadia]

Seriously, though. I can't add water before lockdown. I fought with unstable humidity for months before I heard about dry hatching. I just took it to the extreme since if I so much as sweat in it's direction my whole batch drowns.

 

[BullChick]

Are you calling me fat, BC?


Cuz I am.

 

[BullChick]

You said you were going to show us how you hatch babies in a few weeks.